Bulldogs Host Macdonald Cup

Oct 02, 2009

Take on Ivy Leaguers Dartmouth and Harvard

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - After a near win up at Dartmouth, last
weekend, the Bulldogs look to claim their first tournament of the
season at home this weekend at the Macdonald Cup. The event
will be played on The Course at Yale on Oct. 3-4. Teams will
play 36 holes on Saturday followed by 18 on Sunday.

The tournament will be played on the world famous Yale golf
course. The course was designed by Charles Blair Macdonald, the
renowned golf course architect, champion golfer and co-founder of
the USGA. He collaborated with Seth Raynor and Charles Banks to
design the course, which was opened in 1926. The course is
recognized as one of the finest examples of early American golf
course design with large deeply bunkered greens and narrow rolling
fairways. The course has been the site of every significant state
championship, two USGA Junior National events, the 1991, 2004, and
2010 NCAA Eastern Regional championships and both the men's and
women's ECAC Championships. It has been voted the No.1
College Golf Course in America and No.45 of the Top 100 Classical
Golf Courses in America. In 1988, it was ranked by Golf Magazine as
71st among the 100 most difficult courses in the world.

Yale will be fielding two teams for the tournament, and they
will be joined by 13 other visiting schools. Dartmouth and
Harvard will be the lone Ivy League competition. Dartmouth
bested the Bulldogs up in Hanover last weekend, but this weekend
the Big Green will have to deal with the tough Yale course.
Last year, Dartmouth edged out Yale at the Ivy League Championship
by two strokes. Harvard finished 10 strokes behind the
Bulldogs. Joining the Ivy Leaguers will be Binghamton,
Bryant, Central Connecticut, Connecticut, Fordham, Holy Cross, Iowa
State, Rhode Island, Sacred Heart, St. Edwards and Temple

At least year's Macdonald cup, the Bulldogs took second behind
nationally ranked Oklahoma. Yale finished just eight shots
behind the winners. Junior Thomas McCarthy finished in fifth
at the event with junior Michael Fader behind him in
11th and senior captain Ben Wescoe in 22nd.

The Bulldogs had a near win last week at the Dartmouth
Invitational. Yale was leading through 27 holes, but the Big
Green came storming back to claim its own tournament. The
Bulldogs were led by two of their freshmen, Brad Kushner and Carson
Weinard. The pair finished in a tie for sixth place.
Wescoe and McCarthy finished in a tie for 12th with
junior Brandon Marick rounding out the team in 27th.